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The Love of Uncertainty

Love of Uncertainty

“Your complete, total, final, and absolute freedom lies in the vast realm of the unknown. To enter the unknown you must leave everything that you’ve accumulated, including the wonderful peacefulness of the present, which in the end is just one more experience, just one more construction of the mind.” –from the book

The Shimmering World: Living Meditation

Shimming World

$12.9596 pageshardcoverISBN 978-1-59181-066-7 Sentient Publications “In the face of the vastness, the magic, the unknown quality of life, and in a moment of true humility, we may discover the actuality that washes away all our concepts.” The words in this exquisite little book provide us with a portal to that discovery. Pairing the stunning paintings […]

What’s Next After Now?: Post-Spirituality and the Creative Life

What's Next After Now

“Our search for understanding has been defined for millennium as an ever expanding construction of more and more complex concepts. Since the beginning of recorded history we have asked questions suggested by our natural world and the increasingly intricate social structure we have created as human beings. We have mythologized the expansion of understanding as […]

The Happy Child: Changing the Heart of Education

The Happy Child

“Perhaps all that education aspires to be is the preparation of the young person for their role in the larger society. This is certainly a good idea for society, but in the efficiency of producing citizen workers, are we missing the deeper meaning and higher purpose of learning. Have we forgotten about the spirit of […]

The Question to Life’s Answers: Spirituality Beyond Belief

Question to Life's Answers

$12.95160 pagessoftcoverISBN 0-9710786-0-2Sentient Publications In this original and inspiring work, Steven Harrison lays bare the workings of the mind with brilliant clarity. Grappling with the questions we all have about life, he deconstructs the prevailing spiritual, therapeutic, and self-help methods we use to try to change ourselves. In the current climate of uncertainty, it is […]

Getting to Where You Are: The Life of Meditation

Getting to Where You Are

“The global village can be sold Coke and Nike, but absolute truth is a bit trickier. It is too easy to switch channels to some other absolute truth. Or the made-for-TV absolute truth.” –from the book $14.95207 pagessoftcoverISBN 1-59181-006-xSentient Publications A penetrating and wide-ranging journey through contemporary spirituality, meditation technology and post-modern culture, Getting to Where […]

Being One: Finding Our Self in Relationship

Being One

Being One is an exploration of our sense of identity and the ways in which that identity prevents relationship. We habitually orient our perspective to our psychological center rather than to the interrelationship of the world around us. This perspective is a common element in all destructive habits. The viewpoint from our psychological center blocks […]

Doing Nothing: Coming to the End of the Spiritual Search

Doing Nothing

“At a young age I was moved by the pain and discord around me and inside me. I sought to find a complete, final and universal answer to this pain. For 25 years I studied the world’s philosophies and religions. I sought out every mystic, seer and magician I could find throughout the world. It […]